Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-25
WHAT ROYALTY COSTS.
SOME THOUGHTS AND FIGURES BROUGHT
OUT By THE JUBILEE,
Vievria's Receipts from Rasland-Ths SlO,OO0OOO
4 Ysas-e he Gar and the SL2O0OOO Of the
BABY King Of SpsiH-lae0nss Of
Other M1n4rChS.


WASHINGTON, June 22.-Great Britain
IS holding Jubilee this week. Why? To
honor Queen Victoria. What has she done?
She has reigned fifty years! But has she
done anything? No! And has she been
paid for doing nothing? Yes, and right
royalty, too. She has received about $780,
OOO, 900. For nothing? Yes. II is be-
cause she is the queen!
And yet Queen Victoria gets less than
did the kings before her. Royalty is about
the dearest thing in the world to-day. 1t
costs England to maintain its royal, prince
" and ducal families about sic, OOO,OOO 4
year, and the queen has received for the
last fifty years an annual allowance of
nearly $2,OOO,OOO. In addition TO
this she has immense private
estates, among which are the Dnehy Of
Lancaster, whose revenues are seldom less
than 500, 600 a year, and whose aggregate
revenues since the day of her cornation
will perhaps amount TO $4,000, 600. 1t
costs her nothing to keep her family, tor
her sons and daughters are paid from Sl5,-
600 to 500, 600 year each, and the fami-
Iy have private fortunes which will run up
high into the millions. The Prince Of
Wales got $1,000, 900 when he became Of
age, and he has private estates OF more
than I4,OOO acres. His income Is not less
than 81 900, 600 o year, but he takes the
81 coo. 600 without a thank you from
the pockets OF the English people.
IL is much the same with every country
that boasts q king. Russia pays its en-
peror SO, 600, 600 q year, and he has also
An immense revenue from the crown lands
and forests. They include gold and other
mines in Siberia, and no one knows how
big the private income OF the c8ar. Still,
he has five children aud a wife, and MS
expenses in warding of the dynamiterS are
somewhat heavy.
The baby king of Spain was one year old
on the 18th of May, and his income is over
$1,000 a day, or 81, 2OO, 600 a year. In
addition to this Spain gives allowances to
other members of the royal family, and
Queen Margaret, this haby's mother, has
the right to manage his property until he
gets OF age. IL matters not that Spain is
poor and her people burdened with taxa
ton. She pays twice as much for her
crown as she does for education and keeps
getting deeper in debt every year.
The Sultan of Turkey has an income
nearly as large rs that Of the Car. He gets
s., SO, 600 from Egypt, and his income
amounts TO over SO, 0OO, 900 year. Out
of this, however, he has to keep up his
court and his harem, and the imperial
hArem is quite an institution in Turkey.
The first child born to the Sultan, whether
its mother be slave or one Of his wives, ls
legitimate, and in certain cases becomes his
successor. The court and the harem include
about 5000 persons, and the Sultan COM
plains that his income is not large enough
70 cover his expenses.
Egypt, after paying the above tribute to
Turkey, has also to pay the expenses Of Its
khediVe. and the khedive gets 500, 600 a
wear. or Just ten times the salary Of our
President. This sum Is allotted TO him
for himself and he has an allowance alsoOf
$40, 600 tor his father, and three quarters
of million for the rest Of the royal family.
When il is remembered that land in Egypt
is taxed about s. an acre, and that the
population is about only one-teDth Of that
Of the United States it will be seen that
the kings ride on horseback while the peo-
pie 60 on foot
Nearly every one Of the little kingdoms
Of Germany pay royal salaries to those who
preside over them. SAKE WeimS is q
kingdom of Just about the size of Rhode
Island, and its laboring people work for25
cents day and upwards. 1t has q duke
who gets One-seventh Of all the revenues OF
the kingdom, and who, though he has
large private fortune, thinks nothing OF
taking soc, 600 q year from his people.
In MISUNDERSTANDING the reigning fam
ily owns three-ffths of the land and the
grand duke runs things rs he pleases.
King William of Prussia has q civil list OF
81, 900, 600 q year, and Bavaria, notwith-
standing the debt Of the kingdom, pays Its
king ike amount. Little Wurtemberg
gives Its duke $3.50, 900, and the king OF
Saxony has an annual allowance Of 500,
600 for himself and So, 900 year for his
wife.
Both Austria and Italy do well by their
kings and Franz Joseph, who is burdened
with wife and three children, gets only
s., $50, 900 annually from Austria-Hun-